After buying Applegate Farms Organic Chicken Strips, Warner
decided to see how they aged, as research for her book.

The results sound revolting:

After about two weeks, the Applegate nuggets, which I'd placed in
a Ziploc bag left slightly open, had essentially liquefied, with
the outlines of the individual chicken pieces no longer visible.
The whole thing was soft and mushy to the touch, and the color
had darkened.

Some non-organic tenders from Bell & Evans, on the other
hand, remained in tact when she performed a similar experiment
(though they reeked).

Warner contacted Chris Ely, one of Applegate's founders, who said
that his product may have dissolved because the company doesn't
use additives to bind everything together like other
manufacturers do.

Even so, they seemed heavily processed, not "minimally processed"
as the package stated.

As a reminder, the USDA requires food labeled "organic" to
contain at least 95 percent organic ingredients, not counting
added water and salt. And it cannot contain sulfites, a type of
preservative.

The bottom line — think twice before you
see the "organic" label on a product and assume it's all natural.